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Catherine L. Hughes Company: Radio One Position: Founder, Chairperson of the Board and Secretary Website: www.radio-one.com Bio: Catherine L. Hughes is the founder and chairperson of Radio One, Inc., the largest African American owned and operated broadcast company in the nation. It is the first African American company to dominate several major markets simultaneously in radio history and possesses the first woman owned radio station to rank #1 in any major market. Born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1947, Catherine Hughes attended Creighton University and University of Nebraska but did not graduate. Around 1969 she began working at KOWH, a black radio station in Omaha. In 1971, Hughes moved to Washington, DC and became a lecturer at the newly established School of Communications at Howard University. In 1973 she became sales director at WHUR-FM. Two years later she became the stations general manager, boosting sales revenue to $3.5 million from $300,000. In 1975, Hughes became the first